JOHN  COLET, DEAN OF  ST. PAUL'S
Detail from the drawing by Holbein
Elizabethan children who grew up in the new mansions heard exquisite
c at home; in the farm-house and cottage they learned the meaning of skilled
manship and everyone lived in an age of great drama and lyric poetry*
Most important of all, sea-power under Elizabeth and later under
iwell gave England its island security* Sea-power compelled our an-
rs to set up schools of navigation and elementary engineering, but it was
ecurity which made possible free discussion, education and parliamentary
utions. There was little that was not discussed in Cromwell's army*
The Puritans, owing to religious motive, continued the process of edu-
lal endowment, and the Protestant tradition gave a common outlook to
sects, Presbyterians and Congregationalists, Baptists and Quakers,
iriaris and later the Methodists. With these innovators and reformers
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